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TEACHING THE WORLD TO SHARE
Cory Doctorow from OpenCola talks about peer to
peer file sharing, Open Source, and soda pop.
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CONTRL YOUR PC WITH A PALM
JD Crouch II shows us how to use your Palm
PDA to remotely control your Windows PC.
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LEO & PATRICK SOUNDS
Three -- count 'em -- three sets of sounds
for your computer. Download them all!
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HELP & HOW-TO ZONE
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The Screen Savers Show Notes for Monday, February 19th,
2001 (repeat of February 13, 2001)...
* Upgrade your video card
Christopher from Saxonburg, Pennsylvania is on the lookout for a
new 3D video card. He wants to upgrade his Voodoo 3000 to a 32 MB
GeForce 2 GTS based board, which will cost under $200. (A 64 MB
version would cost over $250!) Before he buys, he asked if the
nVidia GeForce2 ULTRA 64 MB would be worth the extra cash.
The ULTRA costs around $400. Unless you plan on playing lots of
games in 32 bit color at resolutions of 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 ,
well, we wouldn't bother with it. (Most folks don't have monitors
that would deal real well with those resolutions!) Why? The GeForce
2 GTS with 32 MB of RAM will deliver most of the Ultra's
performance at 1024x768 for half the price.
Important Safety Tip! nVidia is slated to debute the NV20, their
latest 3D graphics engine later this month. When it ships,
exisiting 3D boards should drop in price. So if you can wait till
later this month to buy that board, wait! Here's a great link,
Anandtech's listings of the best 3D card prices they can find on
the web:
http://www3.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1415&p=4
* Program your Palm
Ben cammed in from Birmingham, Michigan to learn how to write
software for the Palm OS. Leo told him that most Palm software gets
written in C with the help of special Palm libraries. You'll need
to learn C. If you've got that out of the way, then Metrowerks
Codewarrior for the Palm OS is the development environ of choice
for Palm apps. You'll need a PC to run it on... here's the link,
and check to see if they have student discounts:
http://www.metrowerks.com/products/palm/
Here's the link to Palm's developer site, which should offer some
mo' tidbits for all you would be codebots:
http://www.palmos.com/dev/
* Unformat your hard drive
Rodney from Houston, Texas works at a small computer store and
accidentally formatted a customer's hard drive. What can he do? Oh
boy... first off, prepare yourself to tell 'em what you did, 'cause
you've done some serious damage.
On the upside, since you only did a 'quick format' on the drive,
and didn't install or run anything after that, all the data should
still be on the drive. That's 'cause a quick format just zaps the
FAT table on the drive. The data is still there, tho the FAT
doesn't point to it anymore. Not having done anything to that drive
since is crucial: the more you run the system, the less likely you
are to ever recover that file! (This is especially true of
accidentally deleted files.)
If they had a ton of data on the drive, you'll need a second drive
to copy the data to. And, frankly, you'll need to spend some cash
on data recovery software. PowerQuest doesn't offer Lost & Found
anymore, though you might be able to find it locally.
http://www.powerquest.com/discontinued.html
You can also check out Ontrack Data International's EasyRecovery
Personal Edition. The free download version lets you save 5 files
and see all the files you could save off the drive, if you bought
the full $89 download:
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Another data recovery tool you can purchase over the web is LC
Technology's Recover98 Version 3.5, $295:
http://www.lc-tech.com/Recover98%20stand%20alone.asp
Frankly, before we tried to use any data recovery software on the
disk (Norton, McAffee, PowerQuest, Ontrack, LC, whatever...) we'd
call the customer and tell 'em what happened. Chances are they will
loose some of their data. Better warn 'em now, and give them the
option of having a proffessional data saving company work on the
disk before any more damage gets done to it:
http://www.drivesavers.comhttp://www.datarec.com
If you're REALLY lucky, the customer will tell ya they didn't have
anything special on there! Here's an article with lots of info on
data recovery:
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Farchive%2Fl0610%2F14l10%2F14l10%2Easp
* Using Norton Ghost
Pablo from Secaucus, New Jersey called in to find out how we use
Norton Ghost to back up our systems on the set. Well, first thing
is to reboot your system in DOS. Then you load Ghost.
Then, well, why don't ya'll check out this article:
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One spiffy feature of the newest version of Ghost is that it can
burn directly to CD-R/CD-RW disks if you have a burner that Ghost
supports!
* RDRAM vs SDRAM
Vamsi from Kearny, New Jersey called in to find out the difference
between RDRAM and SDRAM. Well, in a nutshell RDRAM, or Rambus DRAM,
is a high speed memory (well, that's what it was supposed to be)
that costs nearly twice as much as SDRAM. In the PC world, it's
exclusively used on Pentium IV motherboards. SDRAM, or Synchronous
DRAM is used with just about every other chip sold these days.
Rambus uses a different slot (RIMM, which does not stand for Rambus
inline memory module!) and electrical format, and runs at 800 MHz
over a 16 bit interface. SDRAM uses a 64 bit interface running at
up to 133 MHz. (At least if you're not overclocking!) In theory,
Rambus can move data much faster than SDRAM, but benchmarks have
yet to prove that it offers much of an advantage business apps or
games. Factor in its price --a 256 MB stick of SDRAM costs less
than half the price of a 128 MB stick of Rambus RIMM-- and the
future looks bleak for Rambus on the PC.
In any case, Vamsi, you must purchase the RAM that your motherboard
was designed to use!
Here are a couple of great FAQs. Look up DDR while you're there! It
promises similar performance to RAMBUS, but at a signficantly lower
cost. At least we hope... it's not shipping in volume yet.
http://www.kingston.com/tools/bits/bit31.asphttp://www.corsairmicro.com/main/tsdramfaq.html#rambusdiff
Thanks for watching!
Patrick
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